Victor Koman

Victor Koman began acting at age 10 in children's community theater in Los Gatos, California. He continued through junior high and high school, in a disappointing series of supernumerary and walk-on roles. After attending the 1974 Santa Barbara Writers conference, hosted by his college professor Barnaby Conrad, Koman decided to take the great leap and continued on to Los Angeles and the siren call of Hollywood. His first acting turns were in two AFI student films: The Hang of It and A Date with Julie. Living in a women's restroom on Sorority Row across the street from UCLA in Westwood, Koman focused on screenwriting before moving to the notorious AnarchoVillage in Long Beach, California. Comforting his crushed psyche with the tacit (and sometimes shouted) belief that his authorial vision was decades ahead of the studios, he returned to acting after being personally singled out by legendary director Robert Wise, who said at a cattle call for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), "Those